On Dec. 31, Adobe will no longer support Flash, the animation plug-in that allows the game to function. By the end of this year, Firefox and Chrome will also remove Flash from their browsers. A screengrab of the 1998 Flash video game “Teletubby Fun Land” shows a parody character inspired by the children’s TV show “Teletubbies” smoking a bong. “Even though [Flash] was a proprietary technology, its accessibility marked this era of oddball creativity.”And oddball is right. AdvertisementThe popular “Badger Badger Badger,” a 2003 meme created by British animator Jonti Picking, shows a troupe of dancing badgers and a very large mushroom as a guy chants, “Badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom.” (Thankfully, these absurdist and downright hypnotic pieces will not disappear: An HTML version of Zombo.com is now in existence, and “Badger” can be streamed on YouTube.)

Source: Los Angeles Times December 29, 2020 01:16 UTC